Teaching diverse learners using robotics
Robots for kids
Mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas
Mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas
Universal Access in the Information Society
Remix and Robo: sampling, sequencing and real-time control of a tangible robotic construction system
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Interaction design and children
Technology in finnish special education: toward inclusion and harmonized school days
Informatics in education
Tangible User Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future Directions
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
Designing technologies with children with special needs: Children in the Centre (CiC) framework
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Application of NXT based robots for teaching java-based concurrency
Edutainment'12/GameDays'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Edutainment, and Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on E-Learning and Games for Training, Education, Health and Sports
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Educational robotics has the potential for improving special needs education and for eliminating barriers to learning if it can be focused squarely on the special needs of children. This case study examines a variety of special needs that have the potential to enrich educational robotic design. Educational robotics should be used to meet the individual needs of children and to expose them to the possibilities of various forms of self-expression and exploration. It should facilitate advanced hands-on programming, increase the rate of two-directional communication between child and robot, and improve the quality of instruction and intervention. We designed this study as a qualitative action research project with eight special needs education children who worked with LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT and Topobo robots over a nine-month period. The research convinced us that properly adapted educational robotics can be suited to a variety of users who have different individual needs.